Agreed. I know of the formalization of 2^10 = KiB, etc. I chose not to sound like an idiot utting the words "Kibibyte" and "Mebibyte." Using invented words such as these confuse the people who are too ignorant to distinguish the difference, anyway. If they rolled off the tongue a bit easier (e.g. "kilibyte" and "megibyte") I might be more receptive, but they just sound stupid and are in almost all cases, redundant.Not marketspeak anymore. Drive makers have been doing it long enough that it's not "weird" anymore, like it used to be.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
When computers work in base 10, then it stops being weird >:-( --
To quote from that page:
"It is important to recognize that the new prefixes for binary multiples are not part of the International System of Units (SI), the modern metric system. However, for ease of understanding and recall, they were derived from the SI prefixes for positive powers of ten. As can be seen from the above table, the name of each new prefix is derived from the name of the corresponding SI prefix by retaining the first two letters of the name of the SI prefix and adding the letters "bi," which recalls the word "binary." Similarly, the symbol of each new prefix is derived from the symbol of the corresponding SI prefix by adding the letter "i," which again recalls the word "binary." (For consistency with the other prefixes for binary multiples, the symbol Ki is used for 210 rather than ki.)"
So again, I maintain that a blank DVD-R hold 4.38 GB of data.
-Cory
("Flame on, Garth!")************************************************************************* * Cory Papenfuss * * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * *************************************************************************
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